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Amelia E. Barr

3.5/5 ( ratings)
Born
March 28 1831
Died
0909 03 19191919
Amelia Edith Barr was an English American novelist.

In 1850 she married William Barr, and four years later they immigrated to the United States and settled in Galveston, Texas where her husband and three of their six children died of yellow fever in 1867. With her three remaining daughters, Mrs. Barr moved to Ridgewood,New Jersey in 1868. She came there to tutor the three sons of a prominent citizen, William Libby, and opened a school in a small house. This structure still stands at the southwest corner of Van Dien and Linwood Avenues. Amelia Barr did not like Ridgewood and did not remain there for very long.She left shortly after selling a story to a magazine.[Caldwell,William A.,et al.,"The History of a Village, Ridgewood,N.J.," State Tercentenary Committee, c. 1964, p. 32] In 1869, she moved to New York City where she began to write for religious periodicals and to publish a series of semi-historical tales and novels.

By 1891, when she achieved greater success, she and her daughters moved up the Hudson River to Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York, where they renovated a house on the slopes of Storm King Mountain and named it Cherry Croft. The name has been applied to that period of her career, the most productive and successful. She remained there until moving in with her daughter Lilly in White Plains in her last years.

Amelia E. Barr

3.5/5 ( ratings)
Born
March 28 1831
Died
0909 03 19191919
Amelia Edith Barr was an English American novelist.

In 1850 she married William Barr, and four years later they immigrated to the United States and settled in Galveston, Texas where her husband and three of their six children died of yellow fever in 1867. With her three remaining daughters, Mrs. Barr moved to Ridgewood,New Jersey in 1868. She came there to tutor the three sons of a prominent citizen, William Libby, and opened a school in a small house. This structure still stands at the southwest corner of Van Dien and Linwood Avenues. Amelia Barr did not like Ridgewood and did not remain there for very long.She left shortly after selling a story to a magazine.[Caldwell,William A.,et al.,"The History of a Village, Ridgewood,N.J.," State Tercentenary Committee, c. 1964, p. 32] In 1869, she moved to New York City where she began to write for religious periodicals and to publish a series of semi-historical tales and novels.

By 1891, when she achieved greater success, she and her daughters moved up the Hudson River to Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York, where they renovated a house on the slopes of Storm King Mountain and named it Cherry Croft. The name has been applied to that period of her career, the most productive and successful. She remained there until moving in with her daughter Lilly in White Plains in her last years.

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A Rose Of A Hundred Leaves: A Love Story

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I, Thou and the Other One; A Love Story

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An Orkney Maid

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Jan Vedder's Wife

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The Bow of Orange Ribbon: A Romance of New York

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My Bittersweet Valentine: Classic Tales of Courtship Gone Wrong

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Winter Evening Tales

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Cecilia's Lovers (1905)

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Love for an Hour Is Love Forever

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A Maid of Old New York: A Romance of Peter Stuyvesant's Time (Classic Reprint)

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The complete Collection of Amelia E. Barr (Huge Collection Including A Daughter of Fife, An Orkney Maid, Maids Wives and Bachelors, Winter Evening Tales, Jan Vedder's Wife, And A Lot More)

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A Daughter of Fife

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The Complete Works of Amelia Edith Barr (21 Complete Works of Amelia Edith Barr Including Christine, The Maid of Maiden Lane, Prisoners of Conscience, The Man Between, Winter Evening Tales, & More)

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